Tarot
Tarot
Definition
A deck of 78 symbolic cards — 22 Major Arcana and 56 Minor Arcana across four suits — used as a structured mirror for reflection on a present question, rather than a fixed prediction of the future.
Tarot is a deck of 78 symbolic cards used to reflect on a question or a moment. It divides into the 22 Major Arcana — the big archetypal themes, from The Fool to The World — and the 56 Minor Arcana, four suits (wands, cups, swords, pentacles) that handle the texture of everyday life.
Though the cards began as a 15th-century European card game and were only later used for divination, their staying power comes from their images: each card is a recognisable human situation you can hold up against your own. On a reflective reading, a tarot spread isn’t a forecast — it’s a prompt that surfaces what you already sense but haven’t named.